Hi Microcebus,

You were close. Notice the arguments given to $pm->start and $pm->finish. Start accepts an optional identifier for the process. That same identifier is used as the 3rd argument for the on_finish callback. In the demonstration that follows, I puposely have read_GTF die with an exception. The output is the same whether threads equals 1 or 4.

Like afoken mentioned here, Parallel::ForkManager must be 0.7.6 or later for the demonstration to run.

use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';

use Parallel::ForkManager;

my $threads = 4;

my @name = ('read_genome', 'read_mapfile', 'read_GTF', 'read_RM');
my @task = (\&read_genome, \&read_mapfile, \&read_GTF, \&read_RM);
my (@ret, @err);

if ($threads == 1) {
    for my $id (0 .. $#task) {
        $ret[$id] = eval { $task[$id]->() };
        $err[$id] = $@;
    }
}
else {
    my $pm = new Parallel::ForkManager($threads);
    $pm->set_waitpid_blocking_sleep(0);

    $pm->run_on_finish( sub {
        my ($pid, $exit, $id, $signal, $core, $data) = @_;
        $ret[$id] = delete $data->{ret};
        $err[$id] = delete $data->{err};
    });

    for my $id (0 .. $#task) {
        $pm->start($id) and next;
        my $res = eval { $task[$id]->() };
        $pm->finish(0, { ret => $res, err => $@ });
    }

    $pm->wait_all_children;
}

sub read_genome {
    # do something
    return { 'aa' => 'bb' };
}
sub read_mapfile {
    # do something
    return { 'cc' => 'dd' };
}
sub read_GTF {
    # do something
    die 'exception';
    return { 'ee' => 'ff' }; # not reached
}
sub read_RM {
    # do something
    return { 'gg' => 'hh' };
}

# use data generated in the subroutines

use Data::Dumper;

for my $id (0 .. $#task) {
    say "## ", $name[$id];
    if (length $err[$id]) {
        say "ERROR: ", $err[$id];
        next;
    }
    say Dumper($ret[$id]);
}

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Output:

## read_genome
$VAR1 = {
          'aa' => 'bb'
        };

## read_mapfile
$VAR1 = {
          'cc' => 'dd'
        };

## read_GTF
ERROR: exception at j1.pl line 54.

## read_RM
$VAR1 = {
          'gg' => 'hh'
        };

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Regards, Mario

In reply to Re: Return all the data from child to parent with Parallel::Forkmanager by marioroy
in thread Return all the data from child to parent with Parallel::Forkmanager by Microcebus

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